Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,535, Benoni Evins, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Evans, Benoni
S 43535
CONTENTS

1933 Nov. 13-Stat. H. Henderson
43535
INVALID. Rev. _____
File No. 18,585
Benni Crins
Pi Her Nov
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 165
[Arrangement of 1870.]

8150
4
New York
Barni Evans
of Bristol in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of three Years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1816
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd of March 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 85.56
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
$133.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Date of death not on A.B.

Claims of Benoni Lewis
April 14 th 1883
Concord
to the Honorable Secy of War
Boston

State of New York Ontario County
Benoni Evans of the town of Bristol in the County of Ontario and State of New York and formerly of the town of Hartland in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut being duly sworn and sworn doth on oath solemnly depose say and declare that he is a native citizen of the United States and that he served this country in the revolutionary war against the common Enemy and that he the deponent enlisted in the month of May 1777 for three years as a common soldier in Colonel Heaman Swift Regiment in Captain Titus Watson Company in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Service and that he received an honorable Discharge the 21 st day of April 1780 and that he has lost his Discharge some time since and that he is 87 years old and is in indigent circumstances and is in need of assistance of Government for support and he therefore prays that his name may be placed on the pension list pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 18 th day of March 1818 Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and further the deponent saith not.
Benoni Evans
Subscribed and sworn to before me
This fourth day of April 1818
Stephen Phelps
Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the County of
Ontario in State of New York

Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benoni Evans did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and heard before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Canandaigua April 12th 1818
Stephen Phelps
Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify from satisfactory evidence exhibited before me that Benoni Evans the aforementioned applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his County for support.
Canandaigua July 6th 1818
Stephen Phelps

State of New York Ontario County } ss
Joseph Gilbert of the town of Bloomfield in the County of Ontario and State of New York being duly sworn, deposes and saith that he has been personally acquainted with Benjamin Evans since he was a small boy and that he has always sustained the character of an honest man and that he was acquainted with him while in the Revolutionary war and that he was in a Regiment under the command of Colonel Heman Swift in Captain Tillys Watson Company and that he has no hesitation in saying that the aforesaid Benjamin Evans obtained an honorable discharge from the Service aforesaid and further the deponent saith not.
Joseph Gilbert

The Honorable the Secretary of the War Department will please forward my Certificate (if allowed) to Stephen Phillips Esq. Commissioner who is my agent April 12 th 1818
Barnes Cains

State of New York } Ontario County } Clerk's Office }
In testimony that Stephen S. Hays whose name is subscribed to the
foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature & hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 24 th day of April A.D. 1818
Thos. M. Nance

ESTABLISHED 1888
HENDERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY
R. H. HENDERSON, Proprietor
AMPERE, NEW JERSEY
November 4, 1933.
Veteran's Administration, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Kindly note that I am writing you for some information to be used in a genealogical record of my family.
I would like to have all of the information in your records with regard to the Revolutionary soldier, Benoni Evans , a private in the Connecticut Line, 59 years old in 1818, at which time he was living in Ontario County, New York. He is mentioned in the "Report of the Secretary of War - 1835", as a pensioner living in Ontario County, New York.
I am particularly anxious to find out the place of birth and the names of the children of Benoni Evans, and when and where he died.
Your attention to this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours,
R. H. Henderson,

November 13, 1955
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Mr. R. H. Henderson Henderson Electric Company Ampere, New Jersey
BENONI EVINS S. 45535 BA-J/MLB am
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of November 4, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Benoni Evans, who served in the Connecticut Line and in 1818 was residing in Ontario County, New York.
You are furnished below the record of Benoni Evins (the spelling of the surname under which he signed), as found in pension claim, S. 45535, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
Benoni Evins enlisted in May, 1777, served as private in Captain Titus Watson's company, Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regiment, and was discharged after having served three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-seven years and a resident of Bristol, Ontario County, New York. He had formerly resided in Hartland, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
There are no family data in the claim.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of pensioner's death, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data: Benoni Evins, Certificate #8150, issued March 23, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 14, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator